Virulent

@Virulent@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The admin politics is exactly what turned me off to mastodon. It’s like the worst people are in charge of everything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s a Samsung feature

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point the only thing that could save Firefox is a rewrite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, Linux game compatibility is much better than 60%. More like 99%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that society is so atomizing and broken people are turning to chatbots for affection

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydrogen never made sense. It is simple thermodynamics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SilverBullet: the self-hosted notes app for people with a hacker mindset⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks very similar to trilium

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing Pillars of Eternity for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Until act 3 😬😬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true at all. AI can in fact generate novel techniques and solutions and has already done so in biotech and electrical engineering. I don’t think you understand how AI works or what it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can usually just copy the game files

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s BYD is selling more electric cars than Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m sure the YouTuber who does exclusively “China bad” videos for cults knows what he’s talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, gog doesn’t do anything to suppory Linux. Valve is the reason Linux gaming is as good as it is. Pretty much all the games that are on gog are also drm free on steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I live, only single use vapes are legal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of this isn’t true, at least not for Google’s implementation of RCS which has e2e encryption, delivery and read receipts, the ability to send messages from the Web app ect. Maybe you need a SIM card, I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.1 Patch Notes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Still no fsr3?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just… Charge at home? How often are people driving more than 250 miles in a day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nissan leaf, Chevy bolt (which won’t be sold next year) and…??? Everything else is at least 35k starting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, how many people still use wired earbuds? I’d be surprised if it is 5% of users

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The power consumption is probably the peak power usage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We used to lift cities up to support sewer systems and now adding relatively simple infrastructure seems out of reach. Neoliberalism has completely ruined our ability to invest in public infrastructure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That might be true for older cars that didn’t have good thermal management systems (like the old Nissan leaf) but not true anymore. Electric car batteries now regularly reach over 100k miles with only small degradation. If you baby it, it seems that 200k miles with only 10% range loss is to be expected now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The early adopters have adopted’: US carmakers slow their EV growth plans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydrogen is terrible. It is much more expensive than even gasoline, adds way more complexity compared to all electric, and extremely inefficient. It’s a joke. It might make sense for semis in the future but will never make sense for passenger cars. The Mirai is a concept science experiment sold as a consumer car.

  Batteries are expensive to replace right now but that’s only because we don’t have battery recycling infrastructure yet. Eventually they will be much cheaper to replace. Already, even factoring replacing the battery every 100k miles, electric cars are cheaper to own than gas and many batteries are known to last 200k+ miles. It really is only the Leaf that has the shitty battery that needs replacing.